Günter Kleinen (born 10 January 1941) is a German

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

and professor of

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

with a focus on music education and

systematic musicology Systematic musicology is an umbrella term, used mainly in Central Europe, for several subdisciplines and paradigms of musicology. "Systematic musicology has traditionally been conceived of as an interdisciplinary science, whose aim it is to explor ...

as well as

music psychology The psychology of music, or music psychology, is a branch of psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and/or musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience, including the processes through which music is pe ...

Life

Born in Cologne, Kleinene passed his

Abitur ''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen year ...

in 1960 in Cologne, thenstudied

sound engineering An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduct ...

between 1960 and 1963 at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, including violin and piano. In 1963, he began studying

, psychology and philosophy at the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (, also referred to as UHH) is a public university, public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('':de:Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen, ...

. With a dissertation on the subject of ''Experimentelle Studien zum musikalischen Ausdruck'', he was awarded a

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

in 1967. From 1968 onwards, Kleinen was a research assistant at the then , at the same time completing a studies for elementary and secondary schools in music, fine arts and English language and literature, which he completed with the 1st teacher examination. From 1974 to 1977, he was at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (, until 2023 , WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of study in 15 departments, it is Germany's ...

, where he completed his

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for the subject Musikpädagogik mit dem Schwerpunkt auf den psychologischen und akustisch-technischen Grundlagen musikalischer Didaktik''. In 1977, Kleinen was appointed to a at the

University of Bremen The University of Bremen () is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 18,400 students from 117 countries. Its 12 faculties offer more than 100 degree programs. The University of Bremen has been among the top 50 European rese ...

(at that time under the title ''Music Pedagogy with a focus on functions of musical mass culture'', later changed to ''Musikpädagogik und Systematische Musikwissenschaft''). In 1993, 1995 and 1998, he completed guest lectureships lasting several weeks, including at the Chinese Music School in Beijing. In 2003, a lecture tour took him to China, South Korea and Taiwan. In 2019, Kleinen participated in the ''First International Symposium on the History of Music in the Han and Tan Period'' in

Xi'an Xi'an is the list of capitals in China, capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong plain, the city is the third-most populous city in Western China after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populou ...

, where he was appointed

visiting scholar In academia, a visiting scholar, visiting scientist, visiting researcher, visiting fellow, visiting lecturer, or visiting professor is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture, or perform research on a topic fo ...

at the local music academy. For several years, Kleinen served on the board of the professional associations ''Arbeitskreis für Schulmusik und allgemeine Musikpädagogik'' (AfS), ''Arbeitskreis Musikpädagogische Forschung'' (AMPF) and ''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie'' (DGM). He was co-editor of the yearbook ''Musikpsychologie'' (1984 to 2006). In 2016, he completed the research projects Backdoor (Begabung und Kreativität in der populären Musik) and Cream (Vergleichende musikpädagogische Forschung zum guten Musiklehrer). Kleinen is currently engaged in independent musicological research, including current trends in Asian music (China, South Korea, Japan), the integration of Arab musical culture into the music of the European avant-garde and other music pedagogical research methods.

Publications

* Kleinen, Günter: ''Experimentelle Studien zum musikalischen Ausdruck.'' Dissertation, Universität Hamburg, 1968 * Werner Breckoff, Günter Kleinen, Werner Krützfeldt, Werner S. Nicklis, Lutz Rössner, Wolfgang Rogge among others: ''Musik aktuell: Informationen, Dokumente, Aufgaben; ein Musikbuch für die Sekundar- und Studienstufe''. Bärenreiter, Kassel mong others1971 * Günter Kleinen: ''Zur Psychologie musikalischen Verhaltens''. Diesterweg, Frankfurt 1975 * Florian Tennstedt und Günter Kleinen: ''Rockmusik und Gruppenprozesse: Aufstieg und Abstieg der Petards''. Fink, Munich 1979 * Günter Kleinen (ed.): ''Kind und Musik''. Laaber, 1984. * Günter Kleinen: ''Die psychologische Wirklichkeit der Musik. Wahrnehmung und Deutung im Alltag''. Bosse, Kassel 1994. * Günter Kleinen (ed.): ''Begabung und Kreativität in der populären Musik''. Lit, Münster 2003. * Günter Kleinen (ed.): ''Musik und Kind. Chancen für Begabung und Kreativität im Zeitalter der Neuen Medien''. Laaber Verlag, Laaber 2003. *Günter Kleinen: ''Chinesische Musik und der kulturelle Transfer auf der Seidenstraße''.''Chinesische Musik und der kulturelle Transfer auf der Seidenstraße''
on WorldCat Epos, Osnabrück 2011.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kleinen, Gunter German musicologists 1941 births Living people People from Cologne University of Hamburg alumni Robert Schumann Hochschule alumni

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